Hacker News: eMPee584

New comment by eMPee584 in "Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone"

eMPee584 — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 18:44:55 +0000

So sad keyboard (even better than keypad) android phones were pushed from the market by corporate decision makers.. Sony Ericsson's SK17 and Samsung's i927 were splendid devices, the latter served me many years (KitKat times..)

Now on an UniHertz Titan 2 which is ok, but the landscape slider phones were just that bit more practical imho..

New comment by eMPee584 in "F-Droid 2.0"

eMPee584 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:34:22 +0000

Such win-win horrors..

New comment by eMPee584 in "OpenAI is "80% of the way" to AGI"

eMPee584 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:54:45 +0000

One could refer to old-style flash powder lamps as "firecrackers" - which did give usable light for photography, quite analogous how a current LLM inference process generates brief "flashes" of intelligence, each time devouring the context window and spitting out a chunk of tokens. Just like with combustion engines or digital processors: at some point, a fast-cycled process is practically indiscernible from a continuous process.

New comment by eMPee584 in "OpenAI is "80% of the way" to AGI"

eMPee584 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:45:29 +0000

For current transformer architectures, the weights don't change but the context window is where "it" "lives", so the "only" thing missing for continuous learning is either infinite context or another persistence mechanism.. something akin to "dreaming" has been proposed f.e. .. Pretty likely somethign will make it into roll-out within a year, probably crossing more thresholds into AGI territory.. Of course that will trigger more goal-post moving, but I don't see how even sceptics would come to the conclusion in 2029 AGI hasn't been reached.

New comment by eMPee584 in "OpenAI is "80% of the way" to AGI"

eMPee584 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:09:51 +0000

For at least another week!!1! The frontier race is probably very tight actually..

New comment by eMPee584 in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

eMPee584 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:05:39 +0000

Someone did a port already: https://github.com/lubabs770/gnat

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

eMPee584 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:33:53 +0000

Like on most other digital maps today, what's direly missing is a scale bar.. cool feat though, thanks for showing!

New comment by eMPee584 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

eMPee584 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:40:03 +0000

This is the relevant historical context to understand how this ever got into big G's mission statement, it was to distance themselves from the then well-known anti-competitive mal-practices of the Redmond giant.. which seemingly they've learned a lot from. Don't no-one worry too much, they only have less than half of the world population's messaging metadata, schedules, realtime location and private pictures.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

eMPee584 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:26:09 +0000

no, because screw all that java crap, they optimized for control and developer quantity, not for ux, customizability, performance...

New comment by eMPee584 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

eMPee584 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:19:42 +0000

which as of now seems to depend on google/apple services being in control of your device and thus gets us half a tiny step closer to freedom at most..

New comment by eMPee584 in "The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun"

eMPee584 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:39:54 +0000

It was absolutely the end of the world for many folks not as privileged by sheer chance of birth place. And getting through this "just fine" will mean hundreds of thousands of starvations in addition to the "default rate" of ~10k just children dying of malnutration each day. So yeah, congratulations to your luck that you can just shrug it off as insignificant for you personally..

New comment by eMPee584 in "DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI may arrive by 2029, warns world unprepared"

eMPee584 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:06:43 +0000

Guess that statement will age well... /s

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: elio – A terminal file manager with rich previews"

eMPee584 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:17:24 +0000

Nice look! as a heavy user of ranger I am hooked to its keyboard shortcuts and malleability though.. hoping that one day, the giant patch queue (including some of mine) will get merged. Multi-threading, as implemented in elio, would also help a lot I guess..

New comment by eMPee584 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

eMPee584 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:51:53 +0000

cool but https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm even has remote image support : D

New comment by eMPee584 in "GenCAD"

eMPee584 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:11 +0000

Well visual reasoning is one approach, another is a coding-like approach like this cadquery-based solution https://articraft3d.github.io/ which was also posted here a couple of days ago.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153064 Curious what you (and others) think, they also are collecting a pool of examples including prompt, reasoning log and token cost, quite interesting imho.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"

eMPee584 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:33:47 +0000

Plasma physics (magnetohydrodynamics / turbulance) turned out to be a bigger challenge then expected, but it's not far fetched to assume we would be somewhat further along had the funding been closer to one of the "more ambitious" curves.

Here's them infamous 1976 budget scenarios: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...

New comment by eMPee584 in "GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup"

eMPee584 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:49:08 +0000

KDE's hybrid file / web browser konqueror has had arbitrary tab tiling since 1999 IIRC.. still a gread tool, would just need some love and webextensions support to come back big

New comment by eMPee584 in "Teaching Claude CAD skills. Onshape MCP and visual reasoning tools"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:01:53 +0000

Oh and also https://FluidCAD.io Parametric CAD with JavaScript was posted two weeks ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721997

New comment by eMPee584 in "Teaching Claude CAD skills. Onshape MCP and visual reasoning tools"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:15:06 +0000

This is cool, what about trying build123d against it to compare. And just post again, not easy to make the HN frontpage with that expansive flood of crazy tech news.

New comment by eMPee584 in "Bot-AGI-1 – a robotics benchmark for VLMs"

eMPee584 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:58:41 +0000

Great idea. Interesting to see qwen's textual state evaluation for each frame.

Must say though that the keyboard controls didn't work as advertised for me at all, it seemed very borked.